Ongoing questions about ND's handling of the Seeberg case

Catholic institutions protecting rapists from the law in order to ineptly avoid scandal. How typical.

I certainly don't know all the facts, nor do I know anyone involved in this situation at Notre Dame. However, it isn't too unknown the legacy and importance football plays at ND. Sadly, I experienced a similar awareness when I visited Marquette University when my son was considering attending there. Although run by Jesuits and not Holy Cross religious, the similarity in favoring male athletics that brings recognition to the college is unfortunate. To wit, the male facilities are much mroe private and furnished than the female. That the men's basketball team plays at the Milwaukee Bucks arena while the women settle for the gymnasium underscores the value placed on men's athletics over womens. More than 40 years ago I experienced the same issue when I sought admission to a Catholic high school and was questoined about my athletic interests from a school that was perennial high school football champion. My father challenged that line of questioning as I was also an honor student. I was accepted. Athletics at catholic schools, especially male atheletics, is the eighth sacrament, or perhaps sixth before last rites. I hope ND is truly being as careful with the facts and infomration as posisble, though it would have been much more pastoral to care for Lizzy's family and their heartaches and concerns, and much more representative of Catholic spirituality and healing than catholic legalese.

does the perpetrator play in El Paso this week?

I invite him for the traditional Sun Bowl tour of Ciudad Juarez

Got a few things to show him.

I can meet him at the Cathedral here, easy.

While in neighboring El Paso for the SUN Bowl, send this player over here to Ciudad Juarez for the traditional tour.

will he be treated shabbily?

As at Notre Dame, impunity is the hallmark of the Mexican System of Justice. See the recent public murder of Marisela Escobeda and all of the back story of this mother demanding justice for her dlain daughter, whose confessed killer was absolved.

Unfortunately, as in the greatest Peter Lorre movie, M, the citizenry begins to see justice done.

Notre Dame footballer, come to Ciudad Jaurez . . .
See you at the Cathedral!

A popular singer, born in El Paso, is facing a half century in jail for possible sex crimes in Quintana Roo. We shall see what impunity brings.

Yet this is the fruit not only of Notre DAme having no strong policy on this, and the endemic humiliation of women in our once Catholic Church, but also of having a football team at all, and the incarnation of the militarist, aggressive moral theology that involves. Notre Dame should have no football team, and no ROTC on campus, nor any other paramilitary group.

Notre Dame, Our Lady, is the Queen of Peace, and the source of Peace, and nonviolence. All else in her name is a perversion, especially this incident and its outcome, in so many ways.

More human tragedy in yet another RC assault scandal — it seems that both clergy and football players get the 'wink & nod' (boys will be boys, right?) while their 'institutions' do enough foot-dragging to plow a field of corn — wear down the victim and obstruct serious investigation until the evidence trail is cold.
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To complete the football analogy,   there should be red flags all over the field on this play...   more political conflict of interest in the DA's office,   the ND administration office,   and the sacrosanct athletic department,   than you can shake a Fighting Irish jersey at.
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It's a bit late to be fretting over the RC and ND "brand" and "name value" — both are already circling the drain.     The deceased young woman was victimized twice.     Interesting that Fr. Tom Doyle has been 'unofficially' talking with the young woman's family while the ND administration 'officially' avoids them.
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Anyone noticing a pattern?  
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